[mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000

[Michael Haan]

On 1/18/06, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:39, Michael Haan wrote:
> > > > For the video store, XFS and JFS are really the only reasonable
> > > > options. For your main Linux partitions ext3 and ReiserFS can
> > > > have some real advantages.
> > >
> > > Eh, ext3 works just fine for me right now. Slight lag on really large
> > > deletes, but that's about the only issue. Haven't bothered tweaking
> the
> > > mount params to improve performance either, its good enough as-is.
> >
> > Ok, so ReiserFS can cause issues with HD in Myth if you have 4k stacks,
> or
> > not?
>
> I'm not aware of any stack-specific issues with Reiser, only XFS (though
> it
> appears JFS has issues too).
>
> > If so, how do I know if I have 4k stacks?
>
> If its a Red Hat or Fedora Core 2.6 kernel, installed from one of Red
> Hat's
> kernel rpms, its 4kstacks. Otherwise, you likely would have had to enable
> 4kstacks in a kernel of your own building (though I seem to recall Gentoo
> possibly defaulting to 4kstacks if you're using genkernel).
>
> > How do I fix that, or do I
> > just swap the FS to ext3? Sorry for being dense.....
>
> Sounds like Reiser just plain sucks for large files like those associated
> with
> HDTV, but it isn't a kernel stack size issue. I'd switch to a different
> file
> system myself.
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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Ok - now we're getting somewhere!  I'll see about moving to ext3 and see
what happens.
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